LATEST NEWS FROM THE CAPE.
(Per Garonne.) Capetown, January 25th. Sir Garnet Wolseley has arrived at Natal. He is expected to leave for England in a month's time, going thence to India. M. Joubert, a leading Boer malcontent, says: — "We intend to continue a passive resistance to British authority." The new Constitution has been promulgated. Members of the Legislative Council have been elocted, of whom three are Dutch. It is estimated that during the current year Natal will be rated at L 160.000. There will be a re-settlement of Zululand. It is rumoured that Sir Henry Bulwer will be 'succeeded in the Governorship of Natal by Sir W. J. Rsbinsjn. The Cape Government has agreed on the urgent reqeefct of Saitsia, son of the late paramount chief of the Baautos, to defer the intended disarmament of the Basuto nation until Seitsia's appeal to the Queen and Cape Parliament be heard. Prospecting parties have gone out hunting for gold in the country taken from Seccocoeni. The drought in South Africa has now broken up, and rains have set in. An epidemic has made its appearance among young horses and young ostriches. A new vine disease, in the shape of a minute tick, has appeartd in the Cape vineyards.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1476, 28 February 1880, Page 12
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LATEST NEWS FROM THE CAPE.
Otago Witness, Issue 1476, 28 February 1880, Page 12
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